Horn v. Shirley

George Nose Smith, Justice.

This action for personal injuries was tried before a jury and ended in a verdict for the defendant. At the trial the plaintiff (-on-tended that under Act 161 of 1937, which we will call our Labor Department Act, the measure of the defendant’s duty to provide the plaintiff with a safe place to work exceeded the common-law standard of ordinary care and in effect was that of an insurer. Ark. Stat. Ann. 81-101 through 81-121 (Repl. 1960). The trial court rejected that contention and submitted the case to the jury under AMI instructions which told the jury that at the…